I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I collect my visual inspiration from across the web. I’ve been looking for a one-stop shop where I can save images, music, art and videos that peak my interest. Pinterest is looking like ‘the one’. I’ve been using Pinterest for a while now, but have decided to forgo all other tools and use it exclusively as my visual pinboard. For non-visual content, I still use Instapaper until I decide if I want to keep it or not. … Continue Reading
Three different apples changed the world. The one eaten by Eve, the one that hit Newton, the one created by Steve Jobs.
Found this great video on YouTube. Powerful stuff when you mix inspirational quotes with art.
Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic performing Symphony No. 9 in D major: Mov. 4, “Adagio: Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend”
If you can’t see the video click here.
The great Leonard Bernstein
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists … it is real … it is possible … its yours.”
— by Ayn Rand / from Atlas Shrugged
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
— Mark Twain
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anaïs Nin
Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won’t help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that’s enough, you’re done with it, you’re through;
This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don’t give the vanished days a backward look,
Start where you stand.
The world won’t care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success;
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress;
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,
The future is for him who does and dares,
Start where you stand.
Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
To-day’s the thing, to-morrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history,
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,
Start where you stand.
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by Berton Braley
Photo credit © 小猫王
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I have a new obsession courtesy of ‘The Power of Art’ on BBC Four … Bernini. His work is stunning. It had such a powerful effect on me that I put all my film, photography and writing projects on hold to focus on a new idea I had after watching the programme.
I plan to put up a project page detailing the various things I am working on along with a portfolio of all my completed work.
In the meantime, check out a gallery of Bernini’s most famous pieces ….
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.” - Fred Shero (Hockey coach)
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Imagination is a wonderful thing. It is the closest thing we have to magic. It feeds the part of ourselves that is not skin and bone, the part of ourselves that we have forgotten all about. Every once in a while something will happen to you and you will glimpse it. You will see someone do something so brilliant or so beautiful that it will take your breathe away. You have been inspired.
You begin to feel the need to do more, be more. You have seen brilliance and beauty and in that moment, what you have is no longer enough.
